1. 2022-05. Lethal Encounter in Tehran, A: The Attack on U.S. Vice Consul Robert Imbrie and Its Aftermath. Michael Zirinsky. Almost a century ago, an American diplomat died overseas at the hands of a mob. The implications of this tragic incident reached far beyond Iran’s capital city. Essays.
2. 1997-09. Interview with Ruhollah Geula regarding Robert Imbrie. Anthony Lee. Interview by Lee, the general editor of Kalimat Press, with his father-in-law, an eyewitness to these 1924 events in Tehran. Histories.
3. 1982-06. Murder in Tehran. Henry S. Villard. In 1924 Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie was killed by an angry mob spurred on by religious fanatics after he tried to photograph a fountain that was believed to be sacred, a foreshadowing of the 1979 embassy seizure. Essays.
4. 1937-2024. Mentions of the Faith in the Journal of the American Foreign Services Association. Various. All 14 issues containing keyword "Baha'i." With the exception of articles "Murder in Tehran" and "Lethal Encounter in Iran," the other 12 references to the Bahá'í Faith are just in passing, with few details. Excerpts.
5. 1925-01-08. Consideration of the Bahá'í religion, its Tenets, the Character of its Followers, and the Possibility of its Spread, A. W. Smith Murray. Lengthy report back to the US State Department by Murray, who was then in charge of the U.S. Consulate in Tihran, on the Bahá'ís in the Middle East, the "Imbrie affair," the character of the Bahá'ís, and the possibility of the Faith's spread in Persia. Documents.
6. 1924-08-10. Report to the U.S. Secretary of State. W. Smith Murray. A report to the US Secretary of State by W. Smith Murray, who was in charge of the U.S. Consulate in Tihran, on report of the murder of Vice Consel Robert Imbrie in Tihran. Documents.
7. 1924-07-24. Imbrie Murder Laid to Religious Hate. Author unknown. Two brief articles describing the 1924 murder of an American diplomat by a Muslim mob who thought he was a Bahá'í. Histories.

1. 1924-07-18 —
   American Vice-Consul Major Robert Imbrie was murdered in Tihrán for being a Bahá'í, which he was not, straining relations between the Persian and American governments. When Washington threatened to sever diplomatic relations, Persia arrested some two hundred mullás, formally apologized to the United States and accepted Washington's terms for full reparations. [BBR462-5; BW18:388, [AY277-279]
   • For a picture of the floral tribute sent to his funeral by the Bahá'ís of Persia and America see BW1:100.

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